Thought by at least one football scholar to be the greatest wide receiver that ever lived Seattle Seahawks icon Steve Largent is well-represented on his first ever card the 1977 Topps. Graded MINT 9 by PSA this card is seldom seen despite the graded population of 2 213. You read that right two thousand two hundred and thirteen Steve Largent rookie cards have been graded. The next nearest card in the set in terms of total graded population is card #360 of Walter Payton which has seen 952 examples graded. There are nearly as many Largent rookies graded NM-MT 8 as there are 1977 Payton cards graded. There have been so many Steve Largent rookie cards graded that you could take the THREE most frequently graded cards in the 1977 Topps football set - Payton #99 Mike Webster (625 graded) and #245 Terry Bradshaw (429 graded) and the total graded population of those three cards combined still falls more than 200 cards short of the total number of graded Largent rookies. In fact we took the liberty of examining PSA population reports for Topps football issues for the entire decade of the 1970s and we only found TWO examples of cards that have more graded examples in existence than the 1977 Largent: the iconic 1976 #148 Walter Payton Rookie (5 355 total graded specimens) and the 1979 #390 Earl Campbell rookie (2 333 graded specimens). That's right. The 1977 Topps Steve Largent card has been submitted for grading more than all but two Topps football cards issued in the 1970s. Aside from the Payton and Campbell rookies no other card has more graded examples. Not the Dorsett rookie (2 118 examples graded). Not the Bradshaw rookie (2 104 examples). Not the Staubach rookie (1 890 examples). Not the O.J. Simpson (1 711 examples). No other cards are within 500 in the population reports. Why is this? Why are there so many graded Steve Largent rookies yet one can never seem to find a nice high grade example when they need one? We at Love of the Game have done some detective work and we have come to a conclusion: someone is hoarding Largent rookies. For some reason unbeknownst to us a single collector is ostensibly buying Largent rookies by the pound and submitting them to PSA for grading. Based on the limited number of Largent rookies available in the secondary market we submit that the submitter of those cards is keeping them for his or her own collection making it difficult for the rest of the hobby to obtain a high-grade